Is Life More than a Pile of Boats?
"I am pretty good at tennis, but I will never be as good as the wall. The wall is relentless." - Mitch Hedberg There are a lot of things that are relentless: The Internal Revenue Service, bills, a cat demanding food and the weather. The weather is relentless. When you want it to stop, it keeps coming and when you want it to continue, it stops. Seasons change and the pace changes. One of the things we are reminded of when the pace changes is how quickly it can change and how powerless we are to stop it from changing. It is relentless. Last weekend we were attacked from above by a weather phenomenon that has been given the name Hurricane Sandy. We like to name things and blame things. It's in our nature. We can't accept that "stuff happens," we need to find out whom to blame and what it is called. It's a "Storm of the Century," "Drought of the Decade" or some such moniker that identifies it until the next mi...